Commodity-display stand



March 9 1926.

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March 9 1926.

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C. P. JOHNSON COMMODITY DISPLAY STAND Filed Nov. 19, 1924 s Sheets-Sheet 5 poses, while the scope of my invention will Patented Mar. 9, 1926.

UNITED STATES CLARENCE P. JOHNSON, OF NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMMODITY-DISPLAY STAND.

Application filed November 19, 1924. Serial No. 750,956.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, CLARENCE P. JOHN- SON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newton, county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Commodity-Display Stands, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, isa specification, like characters on the drawings representing llke parts.

My invention, which relates to commodity dlsplay stands and has among its objects the provision of a stand which may be taken apart and shipped in a substantially flat package of minimum bulk, will be best understood from the following description when read in light of the accompanying drawings showing one specific embodiment of my invention selected for illustrative purbe more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings i Fig. 1 shows a perspective view of an assembled stand constructed according to my invention stand according to Fig. 1;

i Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2;

Fig. i is a section on the line 4% of Fig.

Figs. 5 and 6 respectively are sections on the lines 55 and 6-6 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 7 shows a perspective of several sections which when assembled form the display stand according to Fig. 1.'

Referring to the drawings showing the preferred embodiment of my invention I lave shown a display stand comprising the lower tray or compartment 1 and the upper tray or compartment 3. The stand may be made of any suitable material and preferably is made of sheet metal, as for example tin plate which may be painted and grained or otherwise finished to give the stand a pleasing appearance.

The lower tray comprises the end members 5 and 7, the front member 9, and the bottom member 11; while the upper tray comprises the endmembers 13 and 15, the front member 17, and the bottom member 19. As is clearly shown in the drawings the bottom members 11 and 19 of the trays are set at an inclination to the front of the stand so as to hold the commodities, as for example boxes of candy in tilted position, and thereby display the contents of the boxes, the front wall 17 of the upper tray being posi tioned rearwardly of the front wall 9 of the lower tray so that the upper tray does not obscure the contents of the lower tray.

The end members 5 and 7 at their lower edges are bent inwardly to form stiffening flanges 21 forming feet for the stand. As shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the front edges of these members are bent inwardly to form flanges 23, which flanges are bent back towardsthe edges of the members as inclicated at 25 so as to form outwardly opening channels27, while the end edges of the front member 9 are bent back as indicated at 29 to form flanges fitting into the channels 27. This construction locks the front member to the end members and permits them to be assembled or detached by sliding the front member vertically with relation to the end members. The front member 9 at its lower edge has the flange 30 similar to the flanges 21 on the end members. To further stiffen the end members and to give a finish to the upper edge the front member is bent to form the ends of the bottom member 11. The bottom member 11 at its forward end is bent to form a horizontal portion 39 the front edge of which has the upturned stiffening flange 41 which rests in the corner between the body of the; front member 9 and its flange 30.

The upper'ends of the flanges 35 of the end member 11 of the lower tray, having the downturned flanges 49, the horizontal portion 51, and upturned flanges 53 at the front. The front member 17 of the upper tray is constructed similarly to the front member 9 of the lower tray, having the flanges 55 and 57 corresponding to the flanges 30 and 31 of the front member 9. As indicated in Fig. 3 the flange portions 49 of the bottom member 19, the bottom portions of the end members 13 and 15, and the upper portions of the end members 5 and 7 overlap. The upper edges of the end members 5 and 7 .are bent back on each other as indicated at 59, the portion 59 being bent upwardly as indicatedat 61 to form an upwardly openingchannel wl ich receives the flanges 49. After insertion of the flanges 41-9 the end members 13 and 15 are forced into the channels and act as wedges to secure the parts together. 7

It will be observed from Fig. 6 that the front member 17 of the upper tray is secured to the end members 13 and 15 in the same manner that the front member 9 of the lower tray is secured to the end members 5 and 7 the front member 17 for this purpose being formed with inturned flanges 68 which slide in the channels formed by the flanges 65 and 67 of the end members 13 and15.

It will be observed that the bottom member 11 of the lower tray is parallel to the upper inclined edges of the end members 5 and 7, and that the upper tray is supported on the rearward portion of the top edges of ity of superimposed trays and formed of a plurality of substantially flat sheet metal sections for forming the bottoms and walls of said trays whereby when the stand is disjointed said sections may be shipped as a substantially flat package, said sections having edges bent to form U-shaped channels for detachably interlocking with adjacent edges of said sections when said stand is assembled; said stand Eompris'ing a lower tray with a bottom wall inclined downwardly toward the front of said stand, and an upper tray the bottom of which is similarly inclined, the front of said upper tray being positioned rearwardly of the front of said lower tray, and the bottom and side walls of said upper tray being supported on the side walls of-said lower tray.

2. A compactible commodity display stand, comprising a lower and'an upper tray, said trays each having a bottom and end walls detachable from each other, the rearward portion of the upper edge of the sections forming the end walls of said lower tray being bent to form anupwardlyopening channel, a section forming the bottom wall of said upper tray being at its ends bent downwardly to form a portion received in said channels, and the sections forming the end walls of said upper tray having their lower ends received in said channels and acting as wedges to retain said bot-tom wall in said channels, and said sections being substantially flat whereby said tray when disjointed maybe shipped as a substantially flat package.-

- 3., A commodity display stand comprising.

a pair of sheet metal end members, said members having vertical front and rear edges and top edges inclinednpwardly from the front to'the rear of said members, a front member of sheet material the endsof which are detachably interlockedwith the front edges of said end members, a bottom member extending from vone end member .to the other and being substantially parallel to the top edges of said end members, a bottom member for an upper tray extending from one to the other of the rearward portions of the top edges ofsaidend members, end members for said upper tray, a front membe]? for said upper tray interlocked ,at its ends with the front ends of said end members for said upper tray, and said members being substantially flat sheets whereby said tray when disjointed may be shipped as a substantially flat package.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

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